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IV. Make the collocations and make up the sentences with them:

V. Fill in the correct prepositions:

Society … Civil Engineers; to dip … and … waters; a link … smth and smth; some miles long … shore … shore; to be done … conditions; to be unique … the number … different types; to cross … the thrill … it.

VI. Say in other words (if very complicated, use the words after the text):

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel is a 23-mile, open-water drive across the influx of Chesapeake Bay. This highway system traverses a series of shorter spans in which most of the spans are of similar length, raised roads or path across wet ground or through water, bridges, artificial islands, and tunnels to link the southern tip of the Delmarva Peninsula with the Norfolk-Virginia Beach area. The at-sea a particular place or position also makes this the best place in Virginia to watch sea birds. The road over the water is broken up by two underwater passages. A stop at the restaurant and fishing vertical structure which supports the ends of a multi-span superstructure at a location between abutments 4 miles out at sea on one of the manmade pieces of land completely surrounded by water gives you the possibility to walk out over the water to look at birds, ocean-going ships, and views of the distant land along the edge of a large area of water.

(island, opportunity, complex, connect, location, drive, trestles, tunnels, pier, vessels, mouth, causeways, manmade, shore)

VII. Complete the text with suitable letters or words:

A bridge-tunnel is a water c…sing that uses a combina…. of bridge and tunnel structures. For water crossings, a …nel is generally more costly to c….ruct than a brid.... Ho..ver, navigational considerations at some l….ions may limit the use of high …dges or drawbridge spa.. when crossing shipping ch….ls, necessitating the use of a tu..el. In other instances, when lon..r..stances are involv.., a combination of … and …nels may be less c….y and easi.. to ventilate than a single very long tunnel. This situation may oc..r when more eco….cal d..wbri..es are not allowed for one reason or …….. Examples include the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel and the Chesapeake …Bridge-Tunnel, a 37 km long …ucture (including ap…ach highways) that …sses the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay with a com…….. of bridges and tunnels across two widely separ…d shipping channels, using four a……..l islands built in the bay as …tals. Tunnels had to be used instead of..awbrid... because the waterw… they cross are critical to mil…ry naval operations and could not a..ord to be blocked off by a bridge co…pse in the event of the ….ster or war.

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